Among four people arrested on May 9 in the UK on suspicion of involvement in the July 7, 2005 terrorist attacks on the London subway and bus, was the widow of one of the suicide bombers, AFP reports . According to the agency, 29-year-old Hasina Patel, who was married to the leader of the bombers, whose name was Mohammed Sidique Khan, was arrested at her home in Dewsbury.

The European Commission has decided to abandon plans to force the UK to switch to the metric system, writes The Daily Telegraph . British MEP Giles Chichester said he had received confirmation from EU Trade and Industry Commissioner Gunter Verheugen that simultaneous metric and imperial product labeling would be allowed indefinitely. The corresponding resolution should be issued during 2007.

Four people suspected of involvement in the July 7, 2005 terrorist attacks on the London Underground and bus have been arrested in the UK. This was reported by Sky News. Three men aged between 22 and 34, as well as a 29-year-old woman, were arrested. Three of those arrested lived in West Yorkshire and another lived in Birmingham. All four were sent to London for interrogation.

An American court has dropped all charges of immigration violations against Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carilles, who was convicted in Venezuela of organizing the bombing of a Cuban passenger plane, according to the website of the Fox News channel. Carilles, a Cuban-born Venezuelan citizen, was charged with seven counts of unlawful entry into the United States and making false statements to immigration authorities. "I am free.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was considering a plan to split the Treasury, headed by Gordon Brown , the second key figure in the country's leadership and the Labor Party. The Guardian newspaper wrote about this on Wednesday. The plan was proposed to Blair by his advisers Lord Birt, Gareth Davies and David Halpern in 2005, when Labor won the general election and Blair became prime minister for a third time.

Israeli historian Michael Bar-Zohar claims that in 1957, Israel and France entered into a secret agreement to jointly develop nuclear weapons. This is stated in the 500-page biography of the former head of the Israeli government, Shimon Peres , who now holds the post of Deputy Prime Minister. Bar-Zohar told Reuters that he based his work on the book on recently declassified documents from government archives in Israel and France.

Passion of the Inquisition Movie premieres May 10 This week the films "Ghosts of Goya", "The Hills Have Eyes 2", "Indie" and "Captain Alatriste" are released. Reviewers of Time Out Moscow magazine learned how to deal with bad inquisitors, why the battle with mutants is reminiscent of the war in Iraq, where holiday romances lead and what the hardships of the bivouac life of an infantryman are. Goya's Ghosts Genre: art history. Spain, 2006. Director: Milos Forman.

Chris Albrecht, chief executive of Time Warner's HBO cable channel, has been placed on leave to deal with his alcoholism. Two days earlier, a drunken Albrecht was arrested in Las Vegas for beating his girlfriend, Reuters recalls. He spent twelve hours at the station, “cooling down” after the fight, then the police released him. After Albrecht was released by police, he, one of the most successful television producers in the United States, apologized to his family and Time Warner.

In Moscow on May 9 at 10:00 a military parade began in honor of the 62nd anniversary of the Great Victory. Seven thousand military personnel are taking part in the parade on the capital's Red Square - one thousand more than in 2006, Interfax reports . The parade is hosted by Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, and the parade is commanded by Army General Vladimir Bakin, commander of the Moscow Military District.

The Arabic television channel Al Jazeera has received a video message from the kidnappers of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who was taken hostage in the Gaza Strip on March 12, BBC News reports . The videotape, sent by the Army of Islam (Jaish al-Islam), contains an image of Johnston's editorial credentials, as well as a demand for the kidnappers to release Muslims in British prisons in exchange for the journalist. The BBC is currently establishing the authenticity of the tape.

The websites of defenders of the monument to the Soldier-Liberator on May 9 were hacked by hackers. All information has disappeared from the main page of the website of the Night Watch organization web-dozor.ru, and in its place there are banners with the inscription “Proud to be Estonian,” the Estonian flag and the inscription “Estonia forever!” In addition, at least one more website, 1-net.ru, was subject to a hacker attack.

The head of the main service for the activities of law enforcement agencies of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, Valery Geletey, said that suspects in the accident of the Stolichny Express train (Dnepropetrovsk-Kiev) were detained and interrogated, writes Korrespondent.net . According to the prosecutor's office, the railway workers working at the station near which the accident occurred were to blame for the disaster.

Archaeologists have found a fragment of the Great Wall of China near the city of Bayannur in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Agence France Presse , citing the Beijing News, notes that the discovered site turned out to be not only the northernmost known to date, but also one of the oldest. The found section of the wall is low and narrow: 2.3 meters wide and 1.15 meters high.

In honor of Victory Day on Wednesday, songs dedicated to the holiday will be played all day in the Moscow metro, RIA Novosti reports . According to the press service of the Moscow metro, on escalators, in passages and in metro lobbies, passengers will be able to hear congratulations and poems by Konstantin Simonov, Rasul Gamzatov, Alexander Tvardovsky and other poets.

Moscow "Lokomotiv" became the second finalist of the Russian Football Cup of the 2006/07 season. Moscow on aggregate in the semi-finals The railway workers turned out to be stronger than Spartak . In the first meeting at home, Anatoly Byshovets’ team won with a score of 3:0, and in the return game they achieved a victory with a score of 2:1. In the first half, both teams played at low speeds and created few dangerous chances.